Announcement: ERCS on WWW available now

The latest proposals for ERCS (Extended Reference Concrete Syntaxes) for
SGML are now available on:
http://www.sgmlopen.org/sgml/docs/ercs/ercs-home.html
ERCS is being developed now in collaboration with members of SGML Open
(character set committee), with the SPREAD DOCP group (Taiwan, Japan,
Korea, Singapore, US, including WG8J representation), and with help from
various interested professionals in Japan, Singapore and Australia. It uses
ISO 10646 as a character catalog; subsets (repertoires of specific national
character sets) are derived to form specific ERCS concrete syntaxes.
ERCS will result in a set of concrete syntaxes, suitable for reference by
public identifier in the SGML declaration. ERCS will support native-
language tagging for East Asian documents, though any non-English-language-
document users may find it relevant.
All comments and discussion are sought and welcome. Resolving how ISO 8879
can (or must be reformed to) support East Asian documents is the most
pressing and important technical issue for SGML.
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Rick Jelliffe email: ricko@allette.com.au
Allette Systems phone: +61 2 262 4777
Sydney, Australia fax: +61 2 262 4774